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Are Solar Storms Causing Heart Attacks On Earth? Here’s What The Science Tells UsAn active region at the sun's edge produced several M5-class (medium sized) flares over a ten-hour period (Apr. 3, 2017). The most dramatic flare occurs about half way through the video clip, when it shoots up a bright towering plume of plasma. These were the strongest flares of the year so far. Some coronal mass ejections (which hurled clouds of plasma into space) were also associated with some of these flares. The images were taken in a wavelength of extreme ultraviolet light.

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Are Solar Storms Causing Heart Attacks On Earth? Here’s What The Science Tells UsAn active region at the sun's edge produced several M5-class (medium sized) flares over a ten-hour period (Apr. 3, 2017). The most dramatic flare occurs about half way through the video clip, when it shoots up a bright towering plume of plasma. These were the strongest flares of the year so far. Some coronal mass ejections (which hurled clouds of plasma into space) were also associated with some of these flares. The images were taken in a wavelength of extreme ultraviolet light.
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Are Solar Storms Causing Heart Attacks On Earth? Here’s What The Science Tells Us

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What Killed Off SpaceX's Starlink Satellites? It Might Have Been The "Terminator"broken satelites burn like meteors in the sky at night.

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What Killed Off SpaceX's Starlink Satellites? It Might Have Been The "Terminator"broken satelites burn like meteors in the sky at night.
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What Killed Off SpaceX's Starlink Satellites? It Might Have Been The "Terminator"

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Our Understanding Of The Universe Near And Far Is Dramatically ChangingA dense cluster of bright stars, each with six large and two small diffraction spikes, due to the telescope’s optics. They have a variety of sizes depending on their brightness and distance from us in the cluster, and different colours reflecting different types of star. Patches of billowing red gas can be seen in and around the cluster, lit up by the stars. Small stars in the cluster blend into a background of distant stars and galaxies on black.]

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Our Understanding Of The Universe Near And Far Is Dramatically ChangingA dense cluster of bright stars, each with six large and two small diffraction spikes, due to the telescope’s optics. They have a variety of sizes depending on their brightness and distance from us in the cluster, and different colours reflecting different types of star. Patches of billowing red gas can be seen in and around the cluster, lit up by the stars. Small stars in the cluster blend into a background of distant stars and galaxies on black.]
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Our Understanding Of The Universe Near And Far Is Dramatically Changing

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What Happens If A Star Explodes Near Earth?The remnant of Kepler's Supernova, the most recent known supernova in the galaxy. At 20,000 light years away there were no negative consequences for us.

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What Happens If A Star Explodes Near Earth?The remnant of Kepler's Supernova, the most recent known supernova in the galaxy. At 20,000 light years away there were no negative consequences for us.
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What Happens If A Star Explodes Near Earth?

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Faint Thanksgiving Aurorae Might Be Visible Across The Night Skythe coronal mass ejection seen by SOHO and instead of the coronagraph blocking the Sun it's a dinenr plate with a turkey

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Faint Thanksgiving Aurorae Might Be Visible Across The Night Skythe coronal mass ejection seen by SOHO and instead of the coronagraph blocking the Sun it's a dinenr plate with a turkey
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Faint Thanksgiving Aurorae Might Be Visible Across The Night Sky

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Highest-Resolution Images Of The Sun's Surface Ever Revealed – And They're BreathtakingTwo image of the Sun, one in visible light showing a plane disk with a handful of dark spots. The other is the magnetic fields which taces the dark spots but also connects them in ways not visible in visible light.

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Highest-Resolution Images Of The Sun's Surface Ever Revealed – And They're BreathtakingTwo image of the Sun, one in visible light showing a plane disk with a handful of dark spots. The other is the magnetic fields which taces the dark spots but also connects them in ways not visible in visible light.
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Highest-Resolution Images Of The Sun's Surface Ever Revealed – And They're Breathtaking

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As The Sun Officially Hits Solar Maximum, We Are Studying Our Star Like Never BeforeNASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory captured the largest solar flare of solar cycle 25 yet – an X.90 flare seen as the bright flash in the center – on October 3, 2024.

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As The Sun Officially Hits Solar Maximum, We Are Studying Our Star Like Never BeforeNASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory captured the largest solar flare of solar cycle 25 yet – an X.90 flare seen as the bright flash in the center – on October 3, 2024.
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As The Sun Officially Hits Solar Maximum, We Are Studying Our Star Like Never Before

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Geomagnetic Storms Imminent After Strongest Solar Flare This Cycle – And For 7 YearsAn ultraviolet view of the Sun. In the lower center a bright oversaturared spot of light is visible on the isk. The location of the flare.

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Geomagnetic Storms Imminent After Strongest Solar Flare This Cycle – And For 7 YearsAn ultraviolet view of the Sun. In the lower center a bright oversaturared spot of light is visible on the isk. The location of the flare.
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Geomagnetic Storms Imminent After Strongest Solar Flare This Cycle – And For 7 Years

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Why Were Aurorae Seen So Far Away From The Poles This Weekend?Many colors aurorae are visible in the sky over the ocean. A person is siluheatted against them

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Why Were Aurorae Seen So Far Away From The Poles This Weekend?Many colors aurorae are visible in the sky over the ocean. A person is siluheatted against them
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Why Were Aurorae Seen So Far Away From The Poles This Weekend?

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Watch Mars Experiencing A Never-Before-Seen “Hat Trick” Of Global Auroraea 3d render of the spacecraft is overimposed to a 3D render of mars

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Watch Mars Experiencing A Never-Before-Seen “Hat Trick” Of Global Auroraea 3d render of the spacecraft is overimposed to a 3D render of mars
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Watch Mars Experiencing A Never-Before-Seen “Hat Trick” Of Global Aurorae

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The Total Solar Eclipse Was Surrounded By Bright Pink Streamers – What Were They?Solar prominence total solar eclipse

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The Total Solar Eclipse Was Surrounded By Bright Pink Streamers – What Were They?Solar prominence total solar eclipse
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The Total Solar Eclipse Was Surrounded By Bright Pink Streamers – What Were They?

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Massive Eruption From The Sun Likely Hurled Plasma Across Space And At MercuryImage of the Sun at the moment that the filament is about to be ripped and thrown into space. The filament is a bright ribbon and only partially visible beyond the limb of the Sun.

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Massive Eruption From The Sun Likely Hurled Plasma Across Space And At MercuryImage of the Sun at the moment that the filament is about to be ripped and thrown into space. The filament is a bright ribbon and only partially visible beyond the limb of the Sun.
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Massive Eruption From The Sun Likely Hurled Plasma Across Space And At Mercury

clock-iconMarch 18, 2024
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The 2024 Total Eclipse Will Likely Coincide With The Solar MaximumThe total solar eclipse of 2017

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The 2024 Total Eclipse Will Likely Coincide With The Solar MaximumThe total solar eclipse of 2017
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The 2024 Total Eclipse Will Likely Coincide With The Solar Maximum

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Listen To The Radio Blackout Created By The Strongest Solar Flare In 6 YearsAn image of the Sun in UV showing among many feature the overexposed effect of a flare on the detector

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Listen To The Radio Blackout Created By The Strongest Solar Flare In 6 YearsAn image of the Sun in UV showing among many feature the overexposed effect of a flare on the detector
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Listen To The Radio Blackout Created By The Strongest Solar Flare In 6 Years

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The Solar Maximum Is Hurtling Toward Us Faster Than Official Predictions Had ThoughtA cropepd view of the Sun showing the many areas of activity with magnetic fields streching beyond the surface

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The Solar Maximum Is Hurtling Toward Us Faster Than Official Predictions Had ThoughtA cropepd view of the Sun showing the many areas of activity with magnetic fields streching beyond the surface
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The Solar Maximum Is Hurtling Toward Us Faster Than Official Predictions Had Thought

clock-iconOctober 31, 2023
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